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You  say  you  do  not  believe  in  Foreign  Missions.  Then 
there  are  certain  things  which  you  cannot  believe : 

I.  You  cannot  believe  that  God  so  loved  the  world  that  He 
sent  His  Son  to  save  it:  or  that  it  is  His  wish  that  none 
should  perish,  but  that  all  should  come  to  repentance.  You 
deny  God’s  universal  love. 

II.  You  cannot  believe  that  the  Gospel  is  the  power  of  God 
unto  salvation  to  every  one  that  believeth.  You  deny  its  effi¬ 
ciency. 

III.  You  cannot  believe  that  He  was  the  Son  of  God,  or 
has  any  claim  to  your  obedience,  who  said:  “Go  ye  into  all 
the  world  and  preach  the  Gospel  to  every  creature.”  You 
deny  His  authority. 

For  it  is  clear  as  noonday  that  if  you  believed  these  things, 
then  you  must  believe  in  Foreign  Missions. 

Unless  you  find  in  the  Gospel  something  which  makes  it 
worthy  of  being  preached  to  all  men,  you  have  not  found  in  it 
that  which  makes  it  of  any  worth  to  you;  you  have  missed  its 
meaning;  you  do  not  know  its  power.  The  root  of  unbelief 
in  Foreign  Missions  is  want  of  faith  in  the  Gospel. — Selected. 


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All  money  received  for  Charts  and  Leaflets  is  expended 
in  the  interest  of  Foreign  Missions;  and  the  work  of 
mailing,  correspondence,  etc.,  is  done  without  charge. 


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Address  orders  to  W.  B.  JACOBS, 

148  Madison  St.,  Chicago 

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DIAGRAM  EXHIBITING  THE 

Actual  and  Relative  plumbed  of  K[an^ind 

CLASSIFIED  ACCORDING  TO  THEIR  RELIGION. 


.THOLICS, 


190  MILLIONS. 


JEWS. 


MOHAMMEDANS,  170  MILLIONS, 


Each  square  represents  1,000,000  souls. 


116  MILLIONS. 


GREEK  CHURCH,  84  MILLIONS. 

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This  diagram  was  first  issued  by  “  The  Church  Missionary  Society,’* 
of  London. 

The  two  white  squares  in  the  black  indicate  converts  from  heathem-.ni. 


A  FEW  OF  THE  “OPEN  DOORS.” 

IN  FOREIGN  MISSIONARY  WORK. 


This  diagram  tells  its  own  story.  The  lightest  portion  is  Protest- 


antism,  and  this  is  far  from  being  white, 
nearly  a  thousand  millions! 

How  dark  the  darkest 

Protestants,  - 

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Millions. 

Greek  Church, 

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Roman  Catholics, 

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Mohammedans, 

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Of  these  80  millions  are  women  confined  in  Moslem  harems. 
Heathen,  -  856  Millions. 

For  1890  adcl  in  millions  24  to  Protestants;  5  to  Greek  Church ;  15  to 
Roman  Catholics;  5  to  Mohammedans,  and  14  to  Heathen.  This  is  an 
average  from  the  most  reliable  English,  German  and  American  esti¬ 
mates.  Some  authorities  place  the  Protestants  at  160  millions. 


Two  hundred  and  fifty  millions  of  women  depend  for  the  Gospel 
upon  the  women  of  the  Protestant  Churches  of  America. 

Nine-tenths  of  the  contributions  to  Foreign  Missions  are  given  by 
one-tenth  of  the  church  membership,  while  only  one-half  of  the  mem¬ 
bership  give  anything.  The  average  amount  per  member  is  fifty 
cents  per  annum — only  the  seventh  part  of  a  cent  per  day  for  the  con¬ 
version  of  a  thousand  millions  of  heathen!  An  average  of  five  cents 
a  week  from  every  member  of  the  Protestant  churches  of  the  United 
States,  would  bring  into  the  treasury  during  a  single  year,  $16,500,000. 
Ninety-eight  per  cent,  of  the  Church’s  contributions  for  religious  pur¬ 
poses  is  spent  at  home,  while  only  two  per  cent,  is  applied  to  the 
Foreign  Mission  field.  There  are  75,000  ministers  in  the  United 
States,  or  one  to  about  every  600  persons,  while  only  one  is  allotted 
to  half  a  million  in  heathen  lands.  There  are  1,500  counties 
in  China  without  a  single  missionary.  All  mission¬ 
ary  workers  in  heathen  lands,  native  and  foreign,  would  now  be 
represented  by  less  than  one-twentieth,  part  of  one  of  the  squares  00 
this  diagram. 


ENCOURAGEMENTS. 


The  whole  world  is  now  open  for  the  reception  of  the 
Gospel. 

The  Bible  is  printed  in  250  languages  and  dialects. 

There  are  150,000,000  copies  in  circulation. 

Twenty-five  Woman’s  Boards  in  England  and  America  are  active¬ 
ly  engaged  in  Foreign  Missionary  work. 

The  Young  Men’s  Christian  Associations  are  now  formally  inau¬ 
gurating  Foreign  Missionary  Branches. 

The  number  of  Missionary  Societies  is  ten  fold  what  it  was 
eighty  years  ago. 

The  number  of  converts  is  nearly  fifty  fold. 

The  increased  facilities  for  inter-communication. 

The  diffusion  of  the  English  language 

Wonderful  revivals,  with  pentecostal  power,  are  frequent  in  hea¬ 
then  lands. 

The  increase  in  membership  in  heathen  lands  is  thirty  times 
greater  than  at  home  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  ministers  em¬ 
ployed,  although  the  tests  of  discipleship  are  of  the  most  trying  nature. 

But  above  all  other  encouragements  are  the  precious 
promises  of  God : 

“Ye  that  are  the  Lord’s  remembrancers  keep  not  silence  and 
give  him  no  rest  till  he  establish  and  till  he  make  Jerusalem  a  praise 
in  the  earth. — Isa.  62 ,  6  and  7. 

The  following  is  from  The  Word,  the  Work  and  the  World : 

“Our  great  desire  is  to  awaken  the  people  of  God  to  the  unpar¬ 
alleled  opportunities  of  our  own  age,  and  the  need  of  a  movement 
more  deep  and  wide,  more  earnest  and  self-denying,  more  bold  and 
aggressive  than  anything  that  has  yet  been  attempted,  to  reach  the 
NEGLECTED  AT  HOME  AND  EVANGELIZE  THE  MIGHTY  GENERA¬ 
TIONS  abroad — the  one  thousand  million  souls  who  are  dying  in 
Christless  despair  at  the  rate  of  100,000  a  day.” 

j8®“Let  us  remember,  “The  light  that  shines  farthest 
shines  brightest  nearest  home.” 

These  Leaflets  are  furnished  at  30  cents  per  ioo,  postpaid. 

A  beautiful  Chart  of  Diagram  on  second  page  Lithographed  in  Six,  Col¬ 
ors ,  mounted  and  varnished,  ready  for  use,  (size  of  paper  28x42  inches) ,  will  be 
sent  postpaid,  for  60  cents. 

Large  Charts  of  above,  painted  by  hand,  (Size  4^x7^  feet)  for  use  by 
>  Churches,  Sunday  Schools,  etc.,  can  be  obtained  for  $5.00  each. 

Address,  W.  B.  Jacobs,  148  Madison  St.,  Chicago,  III. 


